The Case of the Howling Dog
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The Case of the Howling Dog is a 1934 detective novel by Erle Stanley Gardner featuring lawyer-sleuth Perry Mason investigating a bizarre case involving a mysterious will, a howling dog, and a complex murder plot.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Case of the Howling Dog canonical | 14 |
| The Case of the Howling Dog (1934 film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1201211 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Case of the Howling Dog Context triple: [Perry Mason, appearsIn, The Case of the Howling Dog]
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The Kennel
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The Thief and the Dogs
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The Dogs of War
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Bullet the Wonder Dog
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K-9 and Company
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- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Case of the Howling Dog Target entity description: The Case of the Howling Dog is a 1934 detective novel by Erle Stanley Gardner featuring lawyer-sleuth Perry Mason investigating a bizarre case involving a mysterious will, a howling dog, and a complex murder plot.
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A.
The Kennel
The Kennel is the famously raucous home environment for Gonzaga University's men's basketball team, known for its intense crowd energy and strong home-court advantage.
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B.
The Thief and the Dogs
The Thief and the Dogs is a 1961 existential and psychological novel by Egyptian Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz that follows a recently released thief seeking revenge in post-revolutionary Cairo.
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C.
The Dogs of War
The Dogs of War is a 1980 political war film based on Frederick Forsyth’s novel, following mercenaries hired to overthrow a fictional African dictator.
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D.
Bullet the Wonder Dog
Bullet the Wonder Dog was Roy Rogers’ famous German Shepherd sidekick, known for appearing in his Western films and television shows as a heroic and intelligent companion.
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E.
K-9 and Company
K-9 and Company is a British science-fiction television series set in the Doctor Who universe, featuring the Doctor’s robotic dog K-9 and former companion Sarah Jane Smith in their own adventures.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: The Case of the Howling Dog Description of subject: The Case of the Howling Dog is a 1934 detective novel by Erle Stanley Gardner featuring lawyer-sleuth Perry Mason investigating a bizarre case involving a mysterious will, a howling dog, and a complex murder plot.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Case of the Howling Dog
subject linked to:
Dr. Doremus in The Case of the Howling Dog